| Mr. Bad on 19 Feb 2001 23:52:22 -0000 |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> mailghetto # 36 (A.Biriukov's letter) |
>>>>> "KO" == Kireev Oleg <kireev2000@rambler.ru> writes:
Me> So, in English (and, I guess, French), a "provocateur" or
Me> "agent provocateur" is an agent of the police or other
Me> authority who commits a crime in the guise of a opposition
Me> group in order to justify suppression of that
Me> group. Mr. Biriukov seems to have missed this point.
Me> There was WIDESPREAD questioning (even in the American
Me> mainstream press) of the possibility of government involvement
Me> in the 1999 Moscow bombings that provided the justification for
Me> the Second Chechnyan War.
KO> no, these were the houses' explosions at Autumn'99, and these
KO> talks about FSB's work are not that reliable, really. Biriukov
KO> is accused of preparing another explosion of the other time.
I understood that. Let me clarify: I was saying that the bombing
Mr. Biriukov is accused of -could-, at least, have been a provocateur
incident.
To support that assertion, I pointed out that the Putin gov't has been
accused of provocateur bombings before -- the Summer/Autumn 99
bombings.
I agree, though, that rumors of atrocity don't make much of a logical
defense.
~Mr. Bad
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